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The Aryan Christian Religion & Politics of Richard Wagner
Alexander Jacob"I am the most German being. I am the German spirit."[1] — Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner (1813–1883) is today universally celebrated as the consummate exponent of nineteenth century German opera, whose developed Romantic idiom helped to usher in the musical innovations of Modernism in the early twentieth century. Most people, besides, have a general notion that he was a controversial figure on account of his pronounced anti-Semitic views. Few, however, take care to peruse his several prose works to understand the consistent ethical system, based on Schopenhauer and Proudhon, which accompanied the great musical dramas of Wagner.
Since it is impossible to divorce the musician's mind from his music, especially when it is the exceptionally developed one of a genius such as Wagner, it would benefit us to have a clear idea of Wagner's racial-Christian doctrines of social and political regeneration alongside our easier appreciation of his overwhelmingly powerful music. Although there have been a few serious studies of Wagner's political thought in recent years, these are, understandably, of varying quality.[2]
It would, in general, be advisable to avoid classifying Wagner — as well as the more rhapsodic and unsystematic Nietzsche — under any of the modern "isms," and so I shall endeavor here to elucidate Wagner's philosophy by merely pointing to pivotal passages in his major prose works that illuminate the religious and political dimensions of his thought.
It may at the outset be stated that Wagner considers in his work only the history and culture of the Indo-European race since he considers it to be the most highly developed spiritually. Wagner tends to relate the strength of this spiritual faculty to the dietary habits of the original stock, that is, to what he believed to have been its original vegetarianism.
In his late essay, "Religion and Art," written in 1880 under the influence of his reading of Arthur, Comte de Gobineau's Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (1853), Wagner traces the history of the Aryans from what he considers to have been their original home in India and posits a gradual migration westwards through Iran, Greece, and Rome. In the course of these migrations, Wagner observes that the race has undergone a weakening of its spiritual force through a gradual conversion from vegetarianism to meat-eating, which latter custom has made the western peoples increasingly more violent in their social and historical conduct.
Christianity is considered by Wagner to be a reversal of this trend in that Christ enjoined the peaceful cohabitation of peoples devoted to the cultivation of inner spirituality. Unfortunately, its intimate connection to Judaism has transformed original Christianity into a creed of belligerent rapacity and conquest which does not reflect the teachings of Christ so much as the exhortations of the old Israelite prophets to annihilate the enemies of Jehovah.
Wagner's account of the progress of the Aryans is perhaps not entirely accurate since there is no certainty that the Aryans were first settled in India rather than in the regions around the Black Sea, along with the other branches of the Indo-Europeans.[3]
Also, he tends to interpret the peculiarities of Zoroastrian religion and Greek as being due to the sociological conditions in which the Iranians and Greeks found themselves in antiquity. For example, he explains the dualism of the Zoroastrian religion as being due to the fact that the Aryans who had moved into Iran as conquerors after having become meat-eaters on the way from the gentler climate of India, "could still express their consternation at the depths to which they had sunk" and thus developed a religion based on a vivid conscience of "sin," which forced an opposition between "Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, Ormuzd and Ahriman."[4] This is of course false, since all the ancient religions, including Zoroastrianism, were based on cosmological insight and were not developed to explain the historical conditions of any particular nation.
Only Judaism may be explained in such sociological terms since it represents a revolt of one particular ancient Near Eastern ethnic group – the Arameans and Hebrews — against the cosmological religion of their neighbors in Mesopotamia. This is indeed made clear in the passages in Josephus' Jewish Antiquities I, 157, and Philo the Jew's De mutatione nominum, 72-6, which expose the mundane materialistic and nationalistic ambitions of the Hebrew, Abraham, who instituted the tribal cult of Jehovah.
According to Wagner, the first manifestation of a recognition of the deterioration of racial strength among the western Indo-Europeans was among the Pythagoreans who founded "silent fellowships . . . remote from the turmoil of the world . . . as a sanctification from sin and misery." The fullest exemplification of the need for world-renunciation, however, was that offered by Christ, who gave his own flesh and blood "as last and highest expiation for all the sin of outpoured blood and slaughtered flesh."
Again, Wagner seems unaware of the fact that the Christian story itself borrows heavily from Babylonian and Dionysiac prototypes (Marduk, Dionysus) whose death and resurrection were mere mythological representations of the primal drama of the cosmic solar force that was forced into the underworld before it could be revived in our universe as the sun.[5]
Wagner understands the Christian story literally and maintains that the problems of Christianity stem from the appropriation of the administration of the rites of Communion by the priests, so that the people in general failed to understand the injunction to abstinence from all flesh contained in Christ's offering of his own flesh and blood to his disciples. Besides, the Church as an institution could maintain itself and propagate itself politically only by supporting the violence and rapine of the emperors which contributed to the eventual ruin of the race's inner strength. In these international adventures the Church was gradually forced to revert to its Judaic roots since
wherever Christian hosts fared forth to robbery and bloodshed, even beneath the banner of the Cross, it was not the All-Sufferer whose name was invoked, but Moses, Joshua, Gideon, and all the other captains of Jehova who fought for the people of Israel, were the names in request to fire the heart of slaughter; whereof the history of England at the time of the Puritan wars supplies a plain example, throwing a light on the Old Testament evolution of the Church.
With the adoption of this quasi-Judaic aggression, the Christian Church began to act as the herald of Judaism itself, which, though characterised by a fanatic desire to rule the world, had hitherto been forced to live an oppressed life among the other nations in which it found itself during the Diaspora:
Despised and hated equally by every race . . . without inherent productivity and only battening on the general downfall, in course of violent revolutions this folk would very probably have been extinguished as completely as the greatest and noblest stems before them; Islam in particular seemed called to carry out the act of extirpation, for it took to itself the Jewish god, as creator of heaven and earth, to raise him by fire and sword as one and only god of all that breathes. But the Jews, so it seems, could fling away all share in this world-rulership of their Jehovah, for they had won a share in a development of the Christian religion well fitted to deliver it itself into their hands in time, with all its increments of culture, sovereignty and civilization.
In Europe, the Jews as money-lenders viewed all European civilization as a mere instrument of their own gradual rise to power: "To the Jew who works the sum out, the outcome of this culture is simply the necessity of waging wars, together with greater one–of having money for them" ("Know Thyself," supplement to Religion and Art). The undue power that the Jews have achieved as a result of this clever procedure, as well as due to their emancipation in the middle of the nineteenth century, is thus based on what Wagner considers the basis of all wars, namely "property." Internationally, the protection of property entails the maintenance of "the weaponed host" and "the astounding success of our resident Jews in the gaining and amassing of huge store of money has always filled our Military State authorities with nothing but respect and joyful admiration."
The socialist and democratic revolutions mounted in Germany were also inadequate solutions of the problems resulting from property since they were totally un-German imitations of Franco-Judaic upheavals. Indeed, "democracy" itself is in Germany "purely a translated thing" which exists merely in "the press" ("What is German?," 1865). Party politics is altogether a vicious circle that obscures the real conflict between Germans and Jews under a confusion of names that are themselves wholly un-German, such as "Liberal," "Conservative," "Social Democrat," and "Liberal Conservative." Only when the "fiend who keeps those ravers in the mania of their party-strife no more can find a where or when to lurk among us, will there also be no longer — any Jews."
What is worse is that the Jewish agitators used German nationalist catch-words such as "Deutschtum" and "German freedom" to deceive the German folk and lull it into a false sense of superiority:
Whilst Goethe and Schiller had shed the German spirit on the world without so much as talking of the 'German' spirit, these democratic speculators fill every book- and print-shop, every so-called joint-stock theater, with vulgar, utterly vapid dummies, forever plastered with the puff of 'deutsch' and 'deutsch' again, to decoy the easygoing crowd.
In developing the German spirit therefore one should take care to avoid the temptation of self-complacency, of believing that every German is "quite of oneself . . . something great and needs to take no sort of pains to first become it." Indeed the fact that
Goethe and Schiller, Mozart and Beethoven have issued from the German people's womb far too easily tempts the bulk of middling talents to consider the great minds their own by right of birth, to persuade the mass with demagogic flatulence that they themselves are Goethes and Schillers.
Wagner's remedy to the problem of international conflicts based on Jewish finance, or rather credit — which has indeed replaced religion as "a spiritual, nay, a moral power" ("Know Thyself") — is the reawakening of the genuinely German character. The proof of the racial strength of the Germans is the "pride of race" which, in the Middle Ages, supplied princes, kings and emperors throughout Europe and which can still be encountered in the old nobility of Germanic origin. One obvious sign of the truly German is the language itself:[6]
Do we feel our breath fast quitting us beneath the pressure of an alien civilization; do we fall into uncertainty about ourselves: we have only to dig to the roots in the true father-soil of our language to reap at once a reassuring answer on ourselves, nay on the truly human. And this possibility of always drawing from the pristine fount of our own nature that makes us feel ourselves no more a race, no mere variety of man, but one of manhood's primal branches — tis this that ever has bestowed on us great men and spiritual heroes.
This strength of character is indeed the only defense that the Germans have against the wiles of the Jewish race, which manages to preserve its own racial character easily on account of the unique nature of its "religion," which is indeed not a religion at all but "merely the belief in certain promises of [the Jewish god] which in nowise extend beyond this temporal life . . . , as in every true religion, but simply to this present life on earth, whereon [the Jewish] race is certainly ensured dominion over all that lives and lives not." This inhuman ambition of the Jew is embodied in Wagner's Parsifal by the character of Klingsor, who cuts himself off from all human love by castrating himself in order to acquire power over others. As Wagner put it, trapped in "an instinct shut against all ideality," the Jew remains always "the plastic demon of man's downfall."
The liberation from the constrictions of Judaism can begin only with an effort to understand the nature of the instinctive repugnance that one feels towards the Jew's "prime essence" in spite of his emancipation ("Jewry in Music," 1850): "with all our speaking and writing in favour of the Jews' emancipation, we always felt instinctively repelled by any, actual operative conduct with them." Unlike the true poet, who gains his inspiration "from nothing but a faithful, loving contemplation of instinctive life, of that life which greets his sight amid the Folk," the educated Jew stands "alien and apathetic . . . in the midst of a society he does not understand, with whose tastes and aspirations he does not sympathize, whose history and evolution have always been indifferent to him."
The Jew "stands in correlation with none but those who need his money: and never yet has money thriven to the point of knitting a goodly bond 'twixt man and man." Thus the Jew only considers art-works as so many objects to be bought and sold: "What the heroes of the arts, with untold strain consuming lief and life, have wrested from the art-fiend of two millennia of misery, today the Jew converts into an art-bazaar." The tolerance of Jews in German society would thus mean the substitution of genuine German culture with a simulacrum.
In the "'Appendix' to 'Jewry in Music'" published in 1869, Wagner adds, "Whether the downfall of our culture can be arrested by a violent ejection of the destructive foreign element, I am unable to decide, since that would require forces with whose existence I am unacquainted." And all attempts to assimilate the Jews into German society should take care to fully appreciate the real difficulties of such an assimilation before any measures are passed that recommend it.
To those who may think that Wagner is just a Hitler in sheep's clothing, it may indeed be surprising that he was in fact a deeply philosophical Christian, whose Christianity was infused with the spirit of Schopenhauer's philosophy, which he first read in 1852.[7] The first requisite for a true Christian, according to Wagner, is to divorce his conception of Christ from the Jehovah of the Jews. Indeed, if Jesus is proclaimed the son of Jehovah, "then every Jewish rabbi can triumphantly confute all Christian theology, as has happened indeed in every age" ("Public and Popularity," 1878). Thus it is not surprising that most of the population have become atheistic:
That the God of our Savior should have been identified with the tribal god of Israel is one of the most terrible confusions in all world-history . . . We have seen the Christian God condemned to empty churches while ever more imposing temples are reared among us to Jehovah.
The reason the Jews remain Jewish, the people of Jehovah, in spite of every change, is that, as we have noted above, Judaism is not a religion but a financial political ambition.
Wagner's Schopenhauerian Christianity, on the other hand, demands the recognition of the "moral meaning of the world," the recognition of the root of all human suffering, namely the will and its concomitant passions. "Only the love that springs from pity, and carries its compassion to the utmost breaking of the self-will, is the redeeming Christian Love, in which Faith and Hope are both included of themselves" ("What boots this Knowledge?," supplement to Religion and Art, 1880). Here again Wagner harks back to the natural constitution of the Indo-Europeans, who alone possess "the faculty of conscious suffering" in a highly developed form.
In another supplement to Religion and Art, 'Hero-dom and Christendom' (1881), Wagner maintained that the superiority of the white race is proven by the very fact while "the yellow races have viewed themselves as sprung from monkeys, the white traced back their origin to gods, and deemed themselves marked out for rulership." Although Wagner believed that the substitution of animal food for vegetable was one of the prime causes of man's degeneration ("a change in the fundamental substance of our body"), his reading of Gobineau's Essai led him to consider racial mixture, especially with Jews, as another cause of the corruption of the blood:
It certainly may be right to charge this purblind dullness of our public spirit to a vitiation of our blood – not only by departure from the natural food of man, but above all by the tainting of the hero-blood of noblest races with that of former cannibals now trained to be the business-agents of society.
Although the highly developed psychic constitution of the Indo-Europeans is their distinguishing feature, the excellence of Christ as an individual is due to the fact that he alone represents "the quintessence of free-willed suffering itself, that godlike Pity which streams through all the human species, its font and origin." Wagner even pauses to consider whether Christ could have been of the white race at all since the blood of the latter was in the process of "paling and congealing." Uncertain as to the answer, Wagner goes on to suggest that the blood of the Redeemer may have been "the divine sublimate of the species itself" springing from "the redemptive Will's supreme endeavor to save mankind at death-throes in its noblest races." We recognize in this statement the message of Wagner's last and most intensely religious music drama, Parsifal.
However, Wagner also takes care to stress that, although the blood of the Savior was shed to redeem all of humanity, the latter is not destined to achieve a universal equality as a result, since racial differences will persist. And if the system of world rulership by the white race was marked by immoral exploitation, the uniting of mankind can be achieved only through "a universal moral concord, such as we can but deem true Christianity elect to bring about."
In addition to these insights into the redemptive grace of Christ to be found in this 1881 essay, Wagner had already outlined the ethics of his own version of Christianity earlier, in his 1849 sketch to the projected opera "Jesus of Nazareth." According to this work, the first solution of the problem of evil in the world had been the institution of the Law. However, this static Law, when incorporated as the State, stood in opposition to the ever-changing rhythm of Nature, and man came invariably into conflict with the artificial Law. The faults of the Law were indeed principally due to man's original selfishness, which sought to protect his personal property, including his wife and family, through man-made laws. Wagner, in a Proudhonian manner,[8] rejects these laws and insists on Love as the basis of all familial as well as social relationships.
Man can achieve a oneness with God only through a oneness with Nature and this oneness is possible only through the substitution of the Law with Love. In expounding his version of the Christian doctrine of Love, Wagner has recourse to a quasi-Schopenhauerian theory of the Will and its egoistic striving:
the process of putting off my Me in favor of the universal is Love, is active Life itself; the non-active life, in which I abide by myself is egoism. This becoming conscious of ourselves through self-abnegation results in a creative life, because by abandoning our self we enrich the generality, as well as ourselves.
The opposite, or "non-becoming conscious of ourselves in the universal brings forth sin." An egoist who does not give anything to the universal will be robbed in the end of all by the latter against his will and he will die without finding himself again in the universal.
In this context, Wagner pauses to identify the nature of women and children as being essentially egoistic. A woman can get rid of her natural egoism only through the travail of birth and the love imparted to her children. Thus the woman can find salvation only through her love for a man, though a man too is enriched by his love for a woman since it is the most basic selfless act that he is capable of. Indeed, for a man, the sexual act itself entails a shedding of his life-substance.
Beyond this love for a woman, however, a man can divest his ego also through love of a greater fellowship than the merely personal and sexual. This is the love for one's fatherland, which impels men to sacrifice their life for the "weal of the community."
However, Christ pointed a higher path than even patriotic self-sacrifice, and that is the giving up of oneself for the sake of humanity at large. Every sacrifice is at the same time a creative act, that of sexual love as well as patriotic, since the former results in the multiplication of oneself in children and the latter in the preservation of the many lives that constitute one's nation. The sacrifice of oneself for all mankind, however, is the most complete "parting with the emptied casket of that generative force, and thus a last creation in itself, to wit the upheaval of all unproductive egoism, a making place for life." Such a death is the "most perfect deed of love." Wagner thus identifies the transfiguration achieved through death as the "enthralling power of the Christian myth" (Opera and Drama, 1850). But we may note that this is equally the import of all classical tragedy, and that Wagner was merely interpreting the Christian story in traditional Indo-European terms.
Although the redemption that one achieves through self-sacrifice is a personal one, Wagner had also considered the government of nations from the point of view of Schopenhauerian ethics. In his essay, "On State and Religion" (1864-5), dedicated to his patron Ludwig II of Bavaria, Wagner expounded his religio-political ideal of the philosopher-king using the categories of Schopenhauer's philosophical system. He begins by admitting the folly of his earlier participation in the Socialist revolutions of 1848 and recognises the state as the guarantor of the stability of the nation. However, the state is most authentically and fully represented not by constitutional democratic or socialist governments but rather by the monarch. For the monarch
has naught in common with the interests of parties, but his sole concern is that the conflict of these interests should be adjusted precisely for the safety of the whole . . . Thus, as against the party interests, he is the representative of purely human interests, and in the eyes of the party-seeking citizen he therefore occupies in truth a position well-nigh superhuman.
In the monarch thus the ideal of the state is finally achieved, an ideal which is neither perceived nor cultivated by the egoistic intellect but only by the supra-egoistic "Wahn," or irrational "vision." Wagner associates this Wahn with the "spirit of the race" and of the species that Schopenhauer had pointed to in his analysis of the group behavior of insects, such as bees and ants, which build societies with an apparently unconscious concern for the welfare of the whole regardless of the individuals within it. In human societies this altruistic instinct is indeed manifest as patriotism. However, the self-sacrifice that patriotism demands is often so strenuous that it cannot hold out indefinitely and is, further, likely to be contaminated by the natural egoism of the individual, who may see in the state too only a safeguard of his own interests along with those of his fellow men. In order to sustain the patriotic Wahn therefore is required a lasting symbol and this symbol is indeed the monarch.
A monarch has "no personal choice, may allow no sanction to his purely human leanings, and needs must fill a great position for which nothing but great natural parts can qualify." If his vision of his own patriotic duty is marked by ambition and passion, he will be a warrior and conqueror. On the other hand, if he is high-minded and compassionate by nature, he will realize that patriotism itself is inadequate for the purpose of satisfying the highest aspirations of mankind which indeed require the vehicle not of the state but of religion. Patriotism cannot be the final human political goal since it turns too easily into violence and injustice against other states.
The particular instrument whereby the patriotic Wahn is distorted into international strife is the so-called "public opinion" which is created and maintained by the press. Unlike the king, who is the genuinely disinterested representative of the welfare of the state, the public opinion created by the press is a travesty of the king in that it fosters patriotism through the flattery of the "vulgar egoism of the mass." Thus the press is "the most implacable tyrant" from whose despotism the king, who is preoccupied with "purely human considerations lying far above mere patriotism," suffers most. Thus it is that "in the fortunes and the fate of kings the tragic import of the world can first be brought completely to our knowledge."
Since perfect justice can never be attainable in this world, the religious person naturally finds the patriotic Wahn inadequate and follows instead a religious or divine one which demands of him "voluntary suffering and renunciation" of this entire world to which egoistic man clings. The inward happiness, or revelation, which fills a man (or "saint") who undertakes such renunciation cannot be transmitted to the ordinary people except through religious dogma and the cultivation of "sincere, undoubting and unconditional" faith. True religion is preserved only in the individual who perceives beyond the diversity of sense-perception "the basic oneness of all being." This inner beatific vision can be transmitted to ordinary men not by the exhortations of a vain clergy but only through the edifying example of saintly figures:
Hence there lies a deep and pregnant meaning behind the folk's addressing itself to God through the medium of its heart-loved saints; and it says little for the vaunted enlightenment of our era that every English shopkeeper for instance, so soon as he has donned his Sunday coat and taken the right book with him, opines that he is entering into immediate personal intercourse with God.
Once religion turned to the state for its maintenance and propagation, it too was forced to become an institution of the state and serve the imperfect justice of the state. Hence the abhorrent religious strifes which have marked the political conduct of modern nations.
Since true religiosity can never be conveyed through religious disputation or even by philosophical sophistry, only the king can, if he be endowed with a particularly elevated spiritual nature, or Wahn, unite the two essentially different realms of state and religion into a harmonious whole. The mark of a truly noble mind is that "to it every, often the seemingly most trivial, incident of life and world intercourse is capable of swiftly displaying its widest correlation with the essential root of all existence, thus of showing life and the world themselves in their true, their terribly earnest meaning." And only the king's "exalted, well-nigh superhuman situation" allows him also the superior vantage point from which to view the tragedy of "mundane passions" and grants him the "grace" which marks the exercise of perfect equity.
We see therefore that Wagner's philosophical ideals revive Platonic, Schopenhauerian and Proudhonian Socialistic ones in a message of Christian Love that is as exalted as his music. To those who object today to Christianity as a Judaic monotheistic religion that must be abjured in favour of nebulous neo-pagan revivals, Wagner's writings reveal the true Indo-European virtue of a religion that was certainly Indo-European in its origins and has, when divorced from its later immersion into the history of the Jewish people, continued to possess a deep spiritual value for the elevation of mankind. As for Wagner's criticisms of the Jews for their domination of states through credit and their degradation of the populace through the press, these have indeed become more compelling today than they must have been in his own day, since the Jewish forms of "Socialism" and "Communism" and "Democracy" that have dominated the post-war era have indeed succeeded in robbing the world not only of monarchy but also of all true philosophy and religion.
1. Diary of Richard Wagner 1865–1888: The Brown Book, ed. J. Bergfeld, tr. G. Bird (London: Gollancz, 1980), p. 73.
2. After M. Boucher's Les idées politiques de Richard Wagner (Paris: Aubier, 1947), the recent studies of Wagner's political thought include E. Eugène, Les idées politiques de Richard Wagner et leur influence sur l'idéologie allemande (1870–1845) (Paris: Les Publications Universitaires, 1978), F. B. Josserand, Richard Wagner: Patriot and Politician (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981), A. D. Aberbach, The Ideas of Richard Wagner: An Examination and Analysis of his Major Aesthetic, Political, Economic, Social and Religious Thought (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1984). P. L. Rose, Wagner: Race and Revolution (London: Faber, 1992), and H. Salmi, Imagined Germany: Richard Wagner's National Utopia (New York: Peter Lang, 1999).
3. See A. Jacob, Ātman: A Reconstruction of the Solar Cosmology of the Indo-Europeans (Hildesheim: G. Olms, 2005), "Introduction – Historical." I distinguish the Aryans as one branch of Indo-Europeans, the Japhetic, whereas the generic Indo-European stock includes the Semites and Hamites as well.
4. All translations from Wagner are from W. A. Ellis, Richard Wagner's Prose Works (London, 1897).
5. See A. Jacob, op. cit.
6. Wagner's focus on language as the essential expression of the racial-national spirit is borrowed from Fichte's Reden an die deutsche Nation (1807).
7. See M. Boucher, op. cit., p. 18. Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung was first published in 1818.
8. For the various similarities between the philosophy of Proudhon and that of Wagner, especially their veneration of Christ, their denunciation of the Jews, and their anti-Communist socialism based on the genius of "le peuple" (or "-"), see M. Boucher, op. cit., p. 160ff). Proudhon's abhorrence of Communism is evident in his description of this system as "l'exaltation de l'Etat, la glorification de la police" (ibid., p. 161).
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" the educated Jew stands "alien and apathetic . . . in the midst of a society he does not understand, with whose tastes and aspirations he does not sympathize, whose history and evolution have always been indifferent to him.""
Describing a conversation he had once had with Podhoretz, Vidal wrote,
"Why," asked Poddy, "are you writing a play about, of all things, the Civil War?" I explained to him that my mother's family had fought for the Confederacy and my father's for the Union, and that the Civil War was—and is—to the United States what the Trojan War was to the Greeks, the great single tragic event that continues to give resonance to our Republic.
"Well, to me," said Poddy, "the Civil War is as remote and as irrelevant as the War of the Roses." I realized then that he was not planning to become an "assimilated American," to use the old-fashioned terminology; but, rather, his first loyalty would always be to Israel.
— Gore Vidal's Death Inspires Anti-WASP Spasm At Slate, The New Republic [http://www.vdare.com/articles/gore-vidals-death-inspires-anti-wasp-spasm]
00A pretty good summary of USA, and it's little buddy, today:
"To the Jew who works the sum out, the outcome of this culture is simply the necessity of waging wars, together with greater one–of having money for them" ("Know Thyself," supplement to Religion and Art). … Internationally, the protection of property entails the maintenance of "the weaponed host" and "the astounding success of our resident Jews in the gaining and amassing of huge store of money has always filled our Military State authorities with nothing but respect and joyful admiration."
00Not just England, but the Puritans they expelled as too extreme even for them [or even, later, the Dutch, the most "tolerant" nation on Earth!] and landed in the "New World" which they proceeded to Judafy. Event today, the two faces of the RomBama vie with each other to prove which one "believes America has a unique destiny to lead the world" blah blah blah.
It's not just re-naming everything after some irrelevant camel-stop in Palestine [any name will give the Biblical feel; Babylon, really, who names their own city Babylon?] Constitution = Scripture, Supreme Court = Sanhedrin, etc.
"wherever Christian hosts fared forth to robbery and bloodshed, even beneath the banner of the Cross, it was not the All-Sufferer whose name was invoked, but Moses, Joshua, Gideon, and all the other captains of Jehova who fought for the people of Israel, were the names in request to fire the heart of slaughter; whereof the history of England at the time of the Puritan wars supplies a plain example, throwing a light on the Old Testament evolution of the Church."
00Flavia says:I am unsure if this was intentional, but PBS is showing The Ring Cycle starting today.
00rhondda says:This is a most enlightening essay of the counter-enlightenment. Just because Alexander Dugin talked about Heideggar's Dasein, I now am compelled to read his book. Just because Alexander Jacob is making connections for me that intrigue me, I have to read him too.
Looking on line for Wagner's' 'Know thyself', and his idea of divorcing Judaism from Christianity, I am beginning to see Christianity in a different way from which I was taught and which I had rejected.
Yet, I remember one sermon my Father preached which he based on Oscar Wilde's short story 'The Nightingale and the Rose'. The message basically was that like Christ the nightingale gave its life for two undeserving people, who talked of love, but really didn't love at all. He climbed the mountain that evening. I saw it on his face, but as I looked around the congregation and saw the frowns and pursed lips, I knew the old biddies would be offended. Oh yes, they were. Not just for that reason, but soon after my Father left the church without a real explanation and basically left us in confusion. I do not know if he ever got his divorce.00denikin says:I can't think of anything more laughable than the concept of an "Aryan Christianity." No wonder Nietzsche fell out with this guy.
The man had the right ideas about nationalism and the danger the Tribe represented to Germany, but his religious ideas are just…strange.
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SUNY Plattsburgh Named Hub for Teaching Initiative
Select from 50 to 60 of the best science, technology, engineering and math teachers in the North Country. Bring them to SUNY Plattsburgh. Then, pay them, help them to become even better at what they do and have them mentor new teachers.
That's what a new initiative is setting out to do.
Announced by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in May, the NYS Master Teacher Program will initially recruit 250 of the best teachers in four of the state's Regional Economic Development Zones — the North Country, Mid-Hudson, Central New York and Western New York. Recruitment will start this summer, with professional development beginning in the fall. Meanwhile, the remaining six economic development zones will be added to the mix next spring.
The program will pay the teachers a stipend of $15,000 per year for four years; provide
them access to other master teachers; offer them extensive professional development
through the State University of New York; and set them up as mentors to new and incoming
A Model Department
SUNY Plattsburgh was selected to serve as the program's North Country hub with Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., serving as a research partner. Meanwhile, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Cortland and Buffalo State will play host in the other three regions.
"Your campus, with its model education department, was a clear choice to become a 'base camp' for this program in your region," SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher wrote in a letter informing President John Ettling of the selection.
Dr. Michael Morgan, dean of SUNY Plattsburgh's Division of Education, Health and Human Services, said he was excited to be part of this initiative.
According to Morgan, the college's Teacher Education Unit and the North Country Teacher Resource Center, located on campus, will work together in support of these efforts.
"The close collaboration between our college and the Teacher Resource Center provides
a strong foundation on which to build professional development for master teachers
and student-teacher candidates," Morgan said.
Learning the Best from the Best
"At SUNY Plattsburgh, we are dedicated to helping all teachers become master teachers, and we believe the governor's initiative can only add to our efforts," Ettling said. "We look forward to assisting with this program and helping our teacher-education candidates learn the best practices from the best teachers out there."


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SILVER SPRING, Md. -- The iron chelator drug deferasirox (Exjade) may be used to reduce iron overload in thalassemia patients 10 and older who do not require regular transfusions, the FDA has announced.
Deferasirox was previously approved to treat the condition in transfusion-dependent thalassemia patients. The expanded indication covers nontransfusion-dependent patients with liver iron concentrations of at least 5 mg/g of dry liver tissue.
Along with approving the new indication, the FDA also said Wednesday that an MRI imaging system called FerriScan for measuring liver iron concentration can be marketed as a companion diagnostic for deferasirox.
"Its use in Exjade clinical studies to select patients for therapy, and to manage therapy, defined its role as an imaging companion diagnostic necessary for Exjade's safe and effective use," the agency said in announcing the two approvals.
The new deferasirox indication was supported by a placebo-controlled clinical trial involving 299 patients, with a primary efficacy endpoint of liver iron concentration less than 5 mg/g. In an initial 1-year randomized phase, 15% of patients receiving deferasirox at 5 mg/kg and 27% of those receiving 10 mg/kg met the endpoint, compared with 4% in the placebo group.
In a 1-year extension phase, in which placebo patients switched to deferasirox and those in the original deferasirox groups continued on the drug, 35% of patients met the efficacy endpoint, the FDA said.
The expanded indication was approved under the FDA's fast-track program, which allowed approval based on effects on liver iron concentration -- a measurement that has been deemed a surrogate endpoint.
Deferasirox's manufacturer, Novartis, will be required to conduct additional studies to confirm a clinical benefit, the FDA said.


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Whether you're exceptionally tall, have bad knees or simply enjoy luxurious treatment, you probably have thought about flying business or first class at some point of your life.
Who wouldn't prefer to taste caviar at 10,000 feet or sleep in your own lie-flat bed while crossing the Atlantic Ocean? It sure beats trying to catch some Zs while leaning on a stranger's shoulder after devouring a microwaved chicken-or-fish meal. But how can you afford flying in a premium cabin when ticket prices are sky-high?
One way is to redeem airline miles, but that's a topic for another conversation. The other option is to pay. Yes, pay. With real money! But, you'd be surprised how affordable business-class flights can be sometimes. You just have to know how to find it.
Round-Trip Premium Cabins to Europe From the West Coast
Norwegian Air is a European low-cost airline. It operates about 14 routes between Europe and the United States, several of which depart from Los Angeles and Oakland, all on a Boeing 787. The plane features a premium cabin–a mix between premium economy and what would be considered business class on full-service airlines.
Unfortunately, the airline doesn't offer a fully lie-flat bed, however, you get an angled recline, which is quite enough to get some sleep on your 10-hour transatlantic journey. As for meal service, you receive dinner and breakfast, and no, it's not caviar, but you can't expect a Michelin-level food quality for the price.
Speaking of price, depending on the season, you can find round-trip flights from Los Angeles to Paris for between $1,500 to $2,200. Compared to many carriers, the cost represents great value and provides comfort for your money. If you're traveling from Los Angeles, you also can reach London. If you're traveling from Oakland, you can easily get to Copenhagen, Oslo, and Barcelona.
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Another benefit of Norwegian's premium cabin is lounge access. At LAX, you can visit the oneworld Business Lounge, even though Norwegian isn't part of the oneworld alliance.
Round-Trip Premium Cabins to Europe From the Midwest
Another unusual suspect is Icelandair. The airline flies several routes between the United States and Iceland with an opportunity to make a multi-day stop in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital. If you live in the Midwest, you can fly the carrier nonstop from Chicago to Reykjavik and back in business class for just $1,200 to $2,500, depending on the season.
Icelandair's business class, dubbed the Saga Class, doesn't feature the typical lie-flat seats, but it does have plenty of extra legroom and shoulder space. Having said that, most flights between Iceland and the U.S. are relatively short, as is the case with this specific route from Chicago (just six hours), and lie-flat seats aren't a necessity. Because of Iceland's unique geographical position in the Atlantic Ocean, most U.S. destinations are a relatively short flight away, with the exception of Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland, Ore.
By purchasing a Saga Class ticket, you can use a special line to check in for your flight. As an elite passenger, you also receive access to the beautiful Saga Lounge at Keflavik Airport where you can enjoy a selection of food, drinks, and a warm shower–as well as a panoramic view of the Reykjanes peninsula.
While in-flight, you'll have a wide selection of entertainment, free Wi-Fi, and a catered meal. Again, you will not be served fancy caviar or even lobster, but as a business-class passenger, you can pre-select your meal.
Round-Trip Premium Cabins to Europe From the East Coast
Because of its advantageous position, the East Coast obviously provides the most options for transatlantic flights, with several airlines competing in the big-hub cities of Boston, New York, and Washington.
But there's one airline you may not be familiar with—La Compagnie, a recently founded French airline. The small two-fleet carrier flies just one route between Orly, France, and Newark Liberty International Airport. You can find round-trip non-stop flight options between $1,500 to $1,700, even in July and August–peak travel season.
Their business class offers angled-flat seats, in-flight entertainment, a basic amenity kit and, of course, refreshments and a meal service. You'll get a lot more for a lot less than most airlines that charge for premium economy (or even regular economy) during peak season. Long story short, it's hard to get better value for your casg when flying across the Atlantic.
La Compagnie also gives you access to the Art & Lounge in Newark Airport's Terminal B, where you can grab complimentary food, beverages, Wi-Fi, newspapers and magazines. Any time you can get away from the busy terminal noise, especially at Newark Airport, it's a win.
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Keep in mind that because La Compagnie is such a small airline, there aren't many options for you if something goes wrong. If there's a delay or cancellation for any reason, you have no choice but wait for the next flight out, which is typically the following business day.
How Else Can I Save on Business-Class Flights to Europe?
Well, this one is hit or miss, but one thing you can do is be on the lookout for flight deals on sites like Secret Flying, The Flight Deal, and the Fare Deal Alert. Better yet, follow their Twitter accounts. But you have to be quick and flexible as certain flight options disappear within hours.
Only a couple weeks ago, Lufthansa offered round-trip business-class flights from Washington to Athens for about $2,100 on summer dates. Lufthansa is known for its incredible business-class product, which will usually set you back $4,000–so it obviously sold out fast.
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This site focuses on Madame Blavatsky and her teaching - Theosophy. It features an introduction to Theosophy, study aids, research tools, original text, supporting evidence, membership, and visitor interaction.
Design or Darwin |
Helena Blavatsky, in 1888, was the first person to use the phrase "intelligent design" to convey her understanding of evolution. She used the phrase to convey the idea that the evolution of the species was guided by an underlying purposeful intelligence in nature. This intelligence is different from the "God" of theistic religions. Orthodox science opposes the whole notion of any intelligence design and insists on chance without any guiding direction. This makes her view a distinct alternative to both religion and science. However, it was not just a view - it was based on knowledge. This intelligence in nature can be sensed and known through the mind by advanced seers. A body of seers have checked, tested, and mutually verified their observations on this matter over very long periods of time before accepting them as valid. In this way their observations have become knowledge. One important conclusion of the seers is that Darwinism does explain some facts of evolution. However, those facts are only minor details. Science does observe and record examples of those minor details of evolution. This confirms the views of the seers. The seers are also aware that the origin of the species - as opposed to the origin of subspecies - is determined by purposeful intelligence engaged in design. New science of the last few decades shows that this view is consistent with the facts of nature. Modern science also shows that the facts of nature very strongly contradict the predictions of Darwinism when it attempts to explain the origin of the species. So the science of the last few decades again supports the views of the seers on the origin of the species. Blavatsky brought this knowledge of the seers to the West in 1875 and recorded it pre-eminently in her book, The Secret Doctrine, published in 1888. She called this body of knowledge "Theosophy". The material below outlines these conclusions and assertions and gives more detail. |
Darwinism |
The real issue: Macro-evolution vs Micro-evolution. Survival of the fittest is agreed. But it is Arrival of the fittest that is the issue. Species don't change over time like Darwin hypothesized. A grove of poles replaces the tree of life. Contrary to Darwinism the Cambrian Explosion generated all major life forms in a brief geological moment. Pre-biotic soup models have all failed - contrary to original hopes. Darwinism is partly right - but only in minor ways | |
It is seldom remembered that, in the years following publication of "The Origin of Species", HPB [Helena Blavatsky] was the first person to aggressively argue the case for a transphysical element in evolution against the rising Darwinian consensus. Yet, buried in the sprawling bulk of her two major works (Isis Unveiled, 1877, and The Secret Doctrine, 1888) there lies, in rudimentary form, the first philosophy of psychic and spiritual evolution to appear in the modern West. Her effort, unlike that of the Christian fundamentalists, was not to reject Darwin's work, but to insist that it had, by its focus on the purely physical, wholly omitted the mental, creative, and visionary life of the human race, in short, it omitted consciousness, whose development followed a very different evolutionary path. Darwin simply did not go far enough; his was not a big enough theory to contain human nature in the round. As HPB put it: "Darwin's starting point is placed in front of an open door. We are at liberty with him to either remain within, or cross the threshold, beyond which lies the limitless and the incomprehensible." ("Unfinished Animal", by Theodore Roszak, Harper & Row Publishers, ©1975. Ch. 6. pg. 118.) |
Design -What the sages know |
Source of knowledge Objectives of The Secret Doctrine - In the preface to The Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky states the aims of her book. Oddly enough, the attempt to explain the view of the ancient wisdom upon the Darwinist/ID issue happens to invoke each of her aims. "The aim of this work may be thus stated: to show that Nature is not a fortuitous occurrece of atoms," How appropriate. What we are about is to explore the answer to the momentous question, are the life forms about us the result of "a fortuitous concurrence of atoms." (Was the materialism of Darwinism prominently in her sights as she wrote her magnum opus?) She continues: "and to assign to man his rightful place in the scheme of the Universe;..." Certainly it should be our personal objective to determine this and the issue Darwinism which leads in this directio. "to rescue from degradation the archaic truths which are the basis of all religions; and to uncover, to some extent, the fundamental unity from which they all spring;" Surprisingly, this question follows naturally in the exposition. "finally, to show that the occult side of Nature has never been approached by the Science of modern civilization." And that is a strong conclusion to this section of Blavatsky Net. She adds: If this is in any degree accomplished, the writer is content. It is written in the service of humanity, and by humanity and the future generations it must be judge. Its author recognizes no inferior court of appeal. (preface SD) In part we are that future generation and in part we are that court of appeal. So lets see how the case looks today. |
The Cosmic Ultimate -as per Theosophy points to a concept that lies far beyond the anthropomorphical concept of God, that is prevelant throughout religions today. But rather to an omnipresent, eternal, boundless and immutable Principle, the ground of all being. |
Intelligence in nature -Theosophy states we are not a spontaneous creation from random firings of neurons in some ape brain, but rather we emerge out of an invisible energy field that informs all with its particular blue print and continues to inform 24/7. Many call it the Source Field |
Triple evolution - Man is made up of an evolving trinity to his constitution; spiritual, mental and physical. |
No worship Should we worship the Designer? Again, the ancient wisdom differs from standard religion. The ancient wisdom does not suggest houses of worship which one visits to worship. However, appreciation of nature, perhaps in some ways like th well-known views of Einstein, is natural. "This results in a perpetual series of physical manifestations and moral effects on Earth, during manvantaric periods, the whole being subservient to Karma. As that process is not always perfect; and since, however many proofs it may exhibit of a guiding intelligence behind the veil, it still shows gaps and flaws, and even results very often in evident failurs - therefore, neither the collective Host (Demiurgos), or nor any of the working powers individually, are proper subjects for divine honours or worship. All are entitled to the grateful reverence of Humanity, however, and man ought to be ever striving to help the divine evolution of Ideas, by becoming to the best of his ability a co-worker with nature in the cyclic task. The ever unknowable and incognizable Karana alone, the Causeless Cause of all causes, should have its shrine and alter on the holy and ever untrodden ground of our heart-invisible, intangible, unmentioned, save through "the still small voice" of our spiritual consciousness." The final words in this quote have been separated out in hopes they receive more notice: "Those who worship before it, ought to do so in the silence and the sanctified solitude of their Souls; making their spirit the sole mediator between them and the Universal Spirit, their good actions the only priests, and their sinul intentions the only visible and objective sacrificial victims to the Presence." --H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol 1, p. 280 |
Failure of Darwinism confirms Theosophy |
"The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. There is design in the action of the seemingly blindest forces. The whole process of evolution with its endless adaptations is a proof of this. The immutable laws that weed out the weak and feeble species, to make room for the strong, and which ensure the "survival of the fittest," though so cruel in their immediate action - all are working toward the grand end. -H. P. Blavatsky,The Secret Doctrine Vol I p. 277 |
H. P. Blavatsky wrote extensively on Darwin's Theory of Evolution. In fact, she states that she published the Secret Doctrine as a reply to the concept of darwinian evolution, which she felt not only gave an erroneous explanation of how life began, but also introduced a dogma bordering on religion. For her the theory was as materialistic as it was a path that led Humanity to a dead-end. We have assembled some of her statements in HP Blavatsky on Darwinism. In fact, in the later years of Darwin's life, he began to confess his own misgivings about his theory, and why it could, in time, be shown to be in error - Darwin's Confessions. |
Intelligent Design |
Blavatsky was the first to use the phrase "intelligent design" in a book. |
Peer-reviewed publications by scientists in intelligent design field. |
Issue on Intelligent Design by Theosophy Magazine. Winter 04-05. |
Recommended further reading. Books on the issues surrounding Intelligent Design and Darwinism. |
Additional sources where one can find further information. |
Discovery Institute - the pre-eminent site on Intelligent Design. As per their mission statement - "The mission of Discovery Institue is to advance a culture of purpose, creativity and innovation. Philosophy - "Mind, not matter, is the source and crown of creation, the wellspring of human achievement....In contrast, the contemporary materialistic worldview denies the intrinsic dignity and freedom of human beings and enfeebles scientific creativity and technological innovation. Its vision of a closing circle of human possibilities on a planet of limited horizons summons instead te deadening ideologies of scarcity, conflict, mutual suspicion and despair. |
Idea Center - The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness IDEA) center is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting intelligent design theory and fostering good - spirited discussion and a better understanding over intelligent design theory and the creation - evolution issue among students, educators, churches, and anyone else interested. |
Talk Origins - A Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the origin of lie, geology, biology, catastrophism, cosmology and theology. |


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The new picture, showing four of the council members but not newly appointed member Karin Armbrust, includes Steve Herfert, Shelley Sanderson, Mike Touhey and Sherri Lane.


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R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) -- "Trick or Treat"
Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
> library(pdq)
> source("/Users/njg/PDQ/Test Suites/R-Test/mm1.r")
****** Pretty Damn Quick REPORT *******
*** of : Thu Nov 8 17:42:48 2012 ***
*** for: M/M/1 Test ***
*** Ver: PDQ Analyzer 6.0b 041112 ***
The main trick is that the Perl and Python versions of PDQ will remain entirely unchanged while at the same time invisibly incorporating significant changes to accommodate R.
Motivation (added 11/25/12)
The PDQ library is written in C and uses the *nix interfaces stdlib and stdio. To date, we have used SWIG to generate the other language variants: Perl, Python, R, etc. In general, this works but:- R Console: Since PDQ-R was released within PDQ 5, it has been observed that it can sometimes crash the R-console, e.g., when an error condition is issued.
- CRAN: That and some other issues have meant that the eventual goal of making PDQ-R available on CRAN has always been thwarted. It was not even worth attempting to check it in.
There has always been a barrier for people wanting to use PDQ on Windows, and especially PDQ-R under Windows R. That PDQ-R was unfit to deposit on CRAN, also denied R a flexible queueing network analysis package.
Although I have become more and more enamored with R for computer system performance analysis and data modeling (especially with PDQ-R), I am not an R developer, so things have continued to languish because:
- The reason for the R-console crashes was not easy to determine.
- I was traveling under the mistaken impression that R core development had taken a direction more favorable to the C++ language.
- An early proposal that would have made PDQ CRAN-ready (and possibly solve some of the other issues) was to port the PDQ library to C++ and apply the Rccp interface. SWIG also handles C++. Although Rccp would certainly have facilitated this approach, I was philosophically opposed to using the C++ language. As Alan Kay said: "I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
More recently, however, it was realized that we could keep the C code and apply the official foreign language extensions in the Rlib API. Additionally, a pathway was found for making PDQ-R available in Windows environments.
Example Problem
Suppose you define a queueing node called "node" where the arrival rate λ = 1.5 of the work stream "work" is greater than the service rate μ = 1.0 in the following PDQ-R code:
CreateOpen("work", 1.5)
CreateNode("node", CEN, FCFS)
SetDemand("node", "work", 1.0)
The condition λ > μ is equivalent to having a node utilization ρ > 1, which corresponds to an unstable queue. PDQ detects this error, reports it and stops the computation, which would otherwise produce bogus results. That is how it works in the Perl and Python versions of PDQ: diagnostic error messages appear in the terminal window where you are running your models.
In the current 5.0.4 release of PDQ, however, such an error causes the R-console to crash, so that this diagnostic error message
> source("/Users/njg/PDQ/Test Suites/R-Test/errmsg.r")
Error in Solve(CANON) : ERROR in procedure 'canonical()':
Arrival rate 1.500 for stream 'work' exceeds saturation thruput 1.000 of node 'node' with demand 1.000
is never seen, and is therefore not diagnostic—not to mention that crashing the R-console is a bit uncool. Similarly for any other PDQ 5 error messages. This will no longer happen in PDQ version 6.
We have Paul Puglia (read more details) and Denny Chen to thank for resolving these issues. The new modifications apply the correct R wrappers to replace the following C functions:- exit() will eliminate crashing the R-console. (Denny and Paul)
- fprintf() will allow error messages to appear correctly in the R-console. (Denny and Paul)
- malloc() and will enable PDQ to run under Windows memory management. (Paul)
- Optimized distribution path for PDR-R build on Windows platforms. (Paul)
Demo Models
In addition to the code modifications, Paul has also ported many of the models in my Perl::PDQ book to the R language that can be accessed using the demo command.
> demo(package="pdq")
Demos in package 'pdq':
cluster From examples/ppdq_2005/pdq_models/cluster.pl
diskoptim From examples/misc/diskoptim.pl
ebiz From examples/ppdq_2005/pdq_models/ebiz.pl
elephant From examples/ppdq_2005/pdq_models/elephant.pl
feedforward From examples/ppdq_2005/pdq_models/feedforward.pl
florida From examples/ppdq_2005/pdq_models/florida.pl
httpd From examples/ppdq_2005/pdq_models/httpd.pl
mmm From examples/MultiServer/mmm.py
moreq Example script 1 from original package
morez Example script 2 from original package
mm1 Example Script 3 from original package
spamcan1 From examples/Linux Magazine/spamcan1.py
spamcan2 From examples/Linux Magazine/spamcan2.py
Release Date
We don't have an exact release date yet, primarily because it needs more testing under different variants of the Windows OS. And we are still discovering little wrinkles like, builds using R 2.15.2 have to be compiled with a gcc 4.2 compiler, etc.Nonetheless, we anticipate that PDQ 6.0 will make a nice Xmas present.


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Client AS (v4): 45437 (RWTS-AS-AP)
IPv4 Probes: 72
Outbound spoofing summary (from the client to our server) Source address type IPv4 Private - RFC1918 unknown Routable unknown Largest spoofable neighbor prefix length none
Spoof status key received Spoofed packet was received. ✔ Pattern of tests from this IP block indicates a switch from allowing spoofing to blocking it. rewritten Spoofed packet was received, but the source address was changed en route. blocked Spoofed packet was not received, but unspoofed packet was. unknown Neither spoofed nor unspoofed packet was received.
This test run probed the following paths in order to infer your ability to send different spoofed source packets. Each node in the graph corresponds to an autonomous system, i.e. different Internet service providers. NOTE: This graph does NOT show if an AS blocks spoofed packets, only the path taken by received spoofed packets. The IP Path Details are available for this run. If non-spoofed packets weren't received at a destination, the traceroute to that destination is not included in this graph and may even cause a totally empty graph.
IPv4 Adjacent Netblock Testing:
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natblock Spoofed probe packets appear to be blocked by your local NAT or firewall rather than being rewritten with a public source address.
IPv4 Outbound Filtering Depth:
The tracefilter test found your host unable to spoof routable, non-adjacent source addresses through even the first IP hop.Summary:
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Coco Crisp settled under the final fly ball, and the Oakland Athletics started charging onto the field like a bunch of Little Leaguers chasing an ice cream truck after a big win.
Within seconds, the infield at the Coliseum was a sea of green and gold. These young A's had done it, sweeping Texas to win a most improbable AL West title on the last day of the regular season.
A few hours later, baseball's playoff pairings were set. All of that fretting over potential tiebreakers, cross-country trips and a chaotic postseason schedule was for naught.
"Now the real season starts," New York Yankees star Derek Jeter said Wednesday night.
The playoffs begin Friday with a pair of winner-take-all wild-card matchups. The defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals visit Chipper Jones and the Atlanta Braves in the NL, then Baltimore plays at Texas.
Plus, consider this: After so much talk about the new, expanded postseason format that added two teams, the AL came out exactly how it would've last year. The Rangers and Orioles finished with the same record, so they're playing one game to decide it.
The Athletics' 12-5 win, helped when All-Star center fielder Josh Hamilton dropped a fly, brought them a curious reward: a trip to Detroit to face Triple Crown slugger Miguel Cabrera, reigning AL MVP and Cy Young winner Justin Verlander and the Tigers in Game 1 of the division series.
"They have a very powerful lineup that can certainly score some runs. They also have great starting pitching. We will have our work cut out for us," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said.
No matter, it was time for celebrating. The A's took a victory lap around their ballpark, slapping hands with their fans and spraying them with bubbly.
The Yankees later claimed the AL East championship. They began celebrating in the dugout during the seventh inning when the scoreboard showed second-place Baltimore had lost 4-1 to Tampa Bay, thanks to three home runs by Evan Longoria.
Jeter, a five-time World Series champion, and the Yankees put an emphatic end on their finish, routing rival Boston 14-2.
The Yankees hold home-field advantage throughout the AL playoffs, and will open Sunday at either Baltimore or Texas in a best-of-five series. In a one-year arrangement made necessary by the new wild-card format, the division series begin with two games at the lower-seeded team.
On Saturday night, Johnny Cueto starts for Cincinnati against Matt Cain and host San Francisco in Game 1 of the NL division series.
Ryan Zimmerman and the Washington Nationals got sized for hats with postseason patches, then beat Philadelphia 5-1 to earn home-field advantage all the way through November, if necessary.
There was another winner at Nationals Park, too. The Teddy Roosevelt mascot took the in-game Presidents Race for the first time. Ol' Teddy had lost more than 500 dashes to the 10-foot foam representations of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
"I am so glad Teddy won, so we can stop talking about Teddy. People get more excited for a mascot race than a game," Zimmerman said.
Washington and well-rested 21-game winner Gio Gonzalez will play Sunday at the NL wild-card winner.
Nationals manager Davey Johnson is expected to be all right for the opener. He left the dugout in the seventh inning Wednesday because of numbness in his left leg, the result of pinched nerves in his back.
"I'm OK. Nothing wrong with me," he said.
Atlanta's Kris Medlen will throw the first pitch of this year's playoffs. The Braves have won a record 23 straight games when he's started. Kyle Lohse starts for St. Louis.
For Jones, it could be his last appearance in the majors. The Braves star is retiring at age 40.
"Now we've got to get over this one-game playoff thing to give ourselves a legitimate shot at what we were all shooting for out of spring training," he said.


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Don't sell your alternative assets – wine, art etc.
– to cold callers!
Yesterday an Essex CID officer asked investdrinks to help to pass on the message above. This CID officer is involved in investigating multiple companies, who cold call investors offering to sell their assets at inflated prices. He described how the initial investigation into a company offering commodities including 'graphene!' for wine has seen those involved set up a myriad of dubious companies once the original company was complusorily wound up. "Like an octopus," the officer said.
The likelihood is that once the investor releases their asset to these cold callers for the promised sale they will never receive a penny nor see their assets again.
The Police message is that if you want to sell your alternative assets do it through an established, reputable company. Never, ever, use of company that has cold called you no matter how tempting their offers are.
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The Beta service is much easier to use than the old Companies House search site and furthermore all the documents are free of charge.


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The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte has recently beefed up its video programming, thanks to a new mobile electronic newsgathering (ENG) system developed by the school's broadcast communications department. The system allows roaming field crews to capture and transmit video from remote locations.
The school's new field solution includes equipment from Dejero, a manufacturer of cellular newsgathering products based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
"Budget is always a consideration for a university, and the Dejero equipment has given us the flexibility to capture high-quality HD video from any remote location without having to make a large capital outlay in satellite or microwave trucks," said Craig Berlin, director of broadcast communications at the school, in a prepared statement. "The ENG footage has added an eye-catching new dimension to our video programming, and for the first time we're able to include remote live shots in our broadcasts. We use the Dejero LIVE+ 20/20 transmitter for every shoot that's outside the studio."
The system has been put to work covering the school's football team, the first in UNC Charlotte's 67-year history. A field video crew uses the Dejero LIVE+ VSET 1-U rackmount transmitter to record pre- and postgame sideline interviews with players and coaches then send the HD video back to the studio. The transmitter runs over the school's Ethernet network. Another video crew uses the Dejero LIVE+ 20/20 transmitter to gather footage of tailgate parties, fan celebrations, and other game day events. The broadcast department packages the video into its pre- and postgame shows, which are then "broadcast on the UNC Charlotte cable channel and streamed to the university's website."
Additional information about the newsgathering products can be found online.
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I saw beauty and magnificence today, with a side of inspiration. As I walked through my neighborhood, I smelled grass, trees, and flowers. I felt peace, gratitude, and, most significantly, awe. I got an energy infusion from the warm spring sun and air. I heard children laughing and windchimes playing harmonies across backyard fences. I felt God's presence and my own. My mind slowed long enough for the rest of me to catch up.
During my walk, the usual static was replaced with the quiet certainty of knowing I was exactly where I was supposed to be, doing what I was supposed to do. I was happy without trying to be happy. I felt joy without praying to be joyful or undertaking a self-improvement checklist that promised joy upon completion.
We strive to be rational. We plan our futures. We plan to be happy tomorrow. But, happiness is only possible in what Richard Rohr calls The Naked Now. Buddhists call it the present moment and mindfulness.
We spend so much time trying to get God to love us! But, if we show up for ourselves just for this moment, we can forget trying to be perfect, productive, and accomplished long enough to let God love us and really feel it. That's a game changer!


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This is one of the oldest tricks in the book and how makeup artists made gel liners back in Old Hollywood. It really fills in the holes in between your lashes and gives you an intense smudge like a kajal liner or grease paint. It's super simple and easy, but if you're a minor please get adult supervision.
- A kohl eye liner pencil from your local drug store. Our favorites {that you probably already have in your makeup drawer} that work especially well using this technique are this Maybelline one and this one from Covergirl.
- An open flame {a lighter is nice because it's portable, but you can also use a candle or a gas stove top}.
- To slightly liquefy it, hold the tip of the pencil in the flame for one quick second. Don't even say one Mississippi!
- Wait 15 seconds for the pencil to cool down. It gets really hot so you have to let it cool down then always test it out on the back of your hand before you go anywhere near your eye!!
- Roll it a little on the back of your hand to mold and keep the tip pointed while it's becoming a solid again.
- Sweep the liner along your upper + lower lashlines as well as your inner waterline if you want to make your eyes even more piercing.


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The first new official routes in almost 30 years herald growing momentum for U.S. Bicycle Route System
Missoula, Montana — Adventure Cycling Association and the American Association of Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) today announced that AASHTO's Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering has approved six new U.S. Bicycle Routes (USBR): USBR 1 in Maine and New Hampshire, USBR 20 in Michigan, and USBR 8, 95, 97, and 87 in Alaska — the first official U.S. Bicycle Routes to be established since 1982.
AASHTO and Adventure Cycling welcomed approval of these new routes as a momentous step toward creating an official U.S. Bicycle Route System (USBRS), which will become the largest official national cycling network on the planet.
"We are pleased that the collaboration with Adventure Cycling has resulted in the approval of these new bicycle routes and we look forward to continuing the implementation of the national corridor plan that was endorsed by AASHTO's membership in partnership with the bicycling community," said John Horsley, AASHTO's Executive Director.
The new routes have been under development since AASHTO's Board of Directors approved the national corridor plan for the USBRS — a template for planning interstate bicycle routes across the country — in October 2008.
"The day after AASHTO approved the corridor plan, volunteers contacted our office and asked if they could start developing USBR 20 from Marine City to Ludington," commented Josh DeBruyn, bicycle and pedestrian coordinator for the Michigan Department of Transportation (DOT). "Management supported the idea that this project would be a grassroots effort, and it's worked out tremendously."
In coordination with the Michigan DOT, and working as volunteers for Michigan Trails and Greenways Alliance, supporters Scott Anderson and Kerry Irons pioneered Michigan's grassroots model for implementing U.S. Bike Routes: first by winning buy-in from local communities and transportation agencies, and then securing route number approval from AASHTO, a required step for all U.S. Bike Routes. AASHTO is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association representing highway and transportation departments in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. A powerful voice in the transportation sector, its primary goal is to foster the development of an integrated national transportation system. AASHTO's support for this project is crucial in earning the support of federal and state agencies, and provides a major boost to bicycling and route development for non-motorized transportation.
"It's an important achievement," said Ginny Sullivan, special projects director and USBRS project coordinator at Adventure Cycling Association. "We've appreciated Michigan's very methodical approach over the past two and a half years, providing a model for other states to be successful in their efforts." Adventure Cycling provides technical assistance to states working on route implementation.
Michigan's USBR 20 begins and ends with ferry rides: over 40 miles of Lake Michigan open water from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to the port of Ludington, Michigan, and three-quarters of a mile across the St. Clair River to Ontario, Canada, from Marine City, Michigan. In between are glacial hills and flat prehistoric lake bottoms of central Michigan. USBR 20 mostly follows quiet, rural, country roads and includes over 45 miles of separated pathways, including the 30-mile Pere Marquette Rail-Trail. The western section of the route features the Manistee National and Pere Marquette State Forests, insuring that cyclists will get a strong dose of "pine tree perfume" as they ride. The route is the essence of small-town, rural communities anxious to host traveling cyclists. Plus, riders get to visit Frankenmuth, ("Michigan's Bavaria") and ride through its covered bridge.
Similar to Michigan, Maine's Department of Transportation worked with local cyclists to develop U.S. Bike Route 1 from Calais to Portsmouth. "We looked at many options: Adventure Cycling's Atlantic Coast Route and the East Coast Greenway. We came up with what we thought would provide the best touring route while making important connections to Maine's coastal cities and scenic destinations," says Tony Barrett, a dedicated local cyclist active with the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.
Maine's USBR 1 begins on an historic bridge just upriver from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a symbol of the state's rich maritime history. The route follows low-traffic roads connecting many of Maine's major towns and cities. In Portland, the route follows the Eastern Promontory shore with views of the many islands in Casco Bay. Farther north, USBR 1 follows sections of the state's three major rivers with historic forts and many mills. In Bangor, Maine's second largest city, the route passes by the large statue of Paul Bunyan, a testament to the region's forest products industry along the mighty Penobscot River. (An alternate route, U.S. Bike Route 1A, follows the coast more closely connecting to many harbor towns.) After passing Acadia National Park, USBR 1 continues northeast along the less visited and less-developed "Downeast" coast en-route to the border crossing into New Brunswick. USBR 1 and the coastal alternate are also segments of the East Coast Greenway.
Maine's DOT conducted a series of public meetings to get consensus from local communities about establishing the new route. "Maine communities recognize the important economic benefits bicycle tourism brings to the state and they welcome travelers, wherever they may hail from," commented Dan Stewart, bicycle and pedestrian program manager for the DOT.
In all of these states, tourism and economic development revenue were oft-cited goals for communities joining the effort to establish these new routes. For example, as resolutions of support from the communities along USBR 20 arrived at the DOT office in Michigan, the common component was the economic benefits these tourism and transportation corridors will provide to the cities and towns along the route.
Bicycle travel is becoming an increasingly visible part of the adventure travel market, which, according to a recent study issued by the Adventure Travel Trade Association, generates $89 billion annually. In January 2010, researchers at the University of Wisconsin calculated that out-of-state visitors traveling to Wisconsin for great cycling opportunities generated $532 million, or more than half-a-billion dollars, in economic activity. With in-state touring cyclists, the total economic impact is close to $1 billion. Academics and advocates in Minnesota recently issued studies finding a similar $1 billion economic development boost generated by on-road and off-road cycling. The State of Oregon has embarked on a similar study and expects its survey to come out later in 2011.
Maine's route connects to New Hampshire's Seacoast region and the New Hampshire Seacoast Greenway. The Greenway has been established in New Hampshire for a number of years and is also used as the East Coast Greenway through New Hampshire. "We discussed the off-state system routes with the local jurisdictions. Their preference was to use the East Coast Greenway route, which the municipalities had already evaluated with the cooperation of the seacoast area cycling community," said Larry Keniston, intermodal facilities engineer with the New Hampshire DOT.
Several new routes were also approved for Alaska. Starting with the land-based route connecting through Canada, USBR 8 is the Alaskan Highway, which runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, via Whitehorse, Yukon, through Delta Junction terminating in Fairbanks. An alternate route from Tok to Anchorage is numbered USBR 108 and the section near Haines is alternate USBR 208. The Alaska Highway is popularly (but unofficially) considered part of the Pan-American Highway, which extends south to Argentina. USBR 95 is the Richardson Highway from Delta Junction to Valdez where the route connects to Washington via the ferry system, also known as the Alaska Marine Highway. A north/south route, USBR 97, runs from Fairbanks through Anchorage to Seward. The Fairbanks to Anchorage section of the route follows the Parks Highway and crosses the entrance to Denali National Park. Another route near Skagway, the home of theKlondike Gold Rush National Historic Park was approved as USBR 87, which will also connect to Washington via the Alaska Marine Highway. Alaska submitted their original application to AASHTO last fall, however, route numbers for the state had yet to be developed by the Task Force on U.S. Bicycle Routes. In the weeks leading up to the AASHTO spring meeting, the task force worked with the state of Alaska on the numbering system that was accepted and endorsed by the committee. "We are excited to be able to promote bicycle tourism in the state of Alaska. We have fabulous vistas and low-traffic highways that beg exploration," says Bob Laurie, transportation planner and bicycle and pedestrian coordinator. "Connecting to Washington State via the ferry system and collaborating with Canada is next on our list."
The Virginia DOT has been working over the past year to update their U.S. Bicycle Routes, submitting two applications for realignment in the fall of 2010. This spring, they updated sections of USBR 1 and USBR 76, and last week, AASHTO's Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering also approved these realignments.
"We are taking advantage of emerging bicycle infrastructure as it becomes available, and making adjustments out of necessity in order to provide safer alternatives," said Liz McAdory, policy and planning specialist for the DOT. "We are also working with our districts to continue to sign our existing two U.S. Bicycle Routes — 1 and 76. Our department has a long-standing working relationship with bicycle advocates, especially the Virginia Bicycling Federation. Through this partnership, we've been able to identify necessary changes and update the routes, and will continue to do so." USBR 76 is also known as the TransAmerica Trail, the first mapped cross-continental cycling route in the U.S., produced by Adventure Cycling in 1976.
The U.S. Bicycle Route System is a proposed national network of bicycle routes that span multiple states and are of national and regional significance. These routes will serve as visible and well-planned trunk lines for connecting city, regional, and statewide cycling routes, and provide transportation and tourism opportunities across the country.
A highly collaborative effort, the U.S. Bicycle Route System project is spearheaded by AASHTO's Task Force on U.S. Bicycle Routes and involves officials and staff from state DOTs, the Federal Highway Administration, and nonprofit organizations such as Adventure Cycling, the East Coast Greenway Alliance, and Mississippi River Trail, Inc.
Adventure Cycling has provided dedicated staff support to the U.S. Bicycle Route System project since 2005, including mapping and research support, as well as technical guidance to states implementing routes. Support for Adventure Cycling's work on the project has come from its members and donors, Bikes Belong, the SRAM Cycling Fund, the Lazar Foundation, New Belgium Brewing, the Surdna Foundation, and AASHTO's Center for Environmental Excellence.
When complete, the U.S. Bicycle Route System will be the largest official bike route network on the planet, encompassing more than 50,000 miles of routes. Learn more at www.adventurecycling.org/usbrs.


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The Mesa Super Show
This year's return back to Mesa, Arizona for the Mesa Super Show was a flashback to Super Shows of the past; where the cars were the stars, and old school was hip before hip hop was old school. Traditionally, this show has remained at the top of the must-attend lists for all Lowrider enthusiasts, as the entire southwest converges on the city of Mesa for an unparalleled display of the area's best Lowriders. This year marked a return to the glory days for Mesa, as close to 12,000 spectators and well over 650 exhibitors packed the Mesa Convention Center and Amphitheatre for this special reunion show and Arizona Lowrider Tour Stop! Young and old were treated to a glimpse of Lowrider royalty and the Motorsport Showcase signature Saturday night show set the stage as the Arizona sun set into the evening for a night of Lowriding at its best.
The 2012 Mesa Super Show was made possible by Presenting Sponsors The Hensley Beverage Company representing Budweiser, and Rockford Fosgate Corporation. These two companies recognize the beauty of our culture and their sponsorship efforts were appreciated by all who attended the show. Cold Budweiser products were on hand to quench the thirsts of festive attendees, and while that only added to the show's fiesta atmosphere, Rockford Fosgate took it a step further by keeping the crowd abuzz with their top of the line audio systems and state of the art sound lab; both of which were hosted by special guest Mr. Cartoon who presented his line of sanctioned car care products. The show also had great contributing sponsors, Mega 104.3 and The Beat Radio, Old School City, Shell Happy, UFCW Local 99, National Association of Hispanic Firefighters, The East Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Mesa Association of Hispanic Citizens Committee, Mickey's Signs and Lines, Magoos Hydraulics and Society Car Club. These sponsors all made the show possible thanks to their collective efforts and Motorsport Showcase will be forever grateful for their outstanding contributions and support.
The show kicked off with an old school competition car hop, hosted by Magoos Hydraulics. Hoppers from near and far came to compete for the $2000.00 in cash awards, and Darrell Chapman, Max Moreno, Cool Cars, and Eppie Martinez all won their respective classes and dazzled the crowd with bumpers reaching the sky.
Inside the Convention Center, the best of past, present, and future Lowriders mesmerized the thousands of Lowrider fans who came to see the world's most famous Lowrider, Jesse Valadez' "Gypsy Rose," which was on hand for a special Lowrider Hall of Fame Tribute. Jesse Jr. said it was great bringing the Rose back to Mesa after a 15-year absence as he and his dad last came to Mesa in 1997. The Imperials made an Imperial material statement in bringing out their heavy hitters. Elite Car Club's "El Rey," 2011 Lowrider Car of the Year, owned and built by Albert DeAlba was on hand, along with and one of Lowriding's most revered Hall of Famers, Mario DeAlba Sr. who brought his 2011 Bomb of the Year! The Lowrider royalty just kept coming with an outstanding and strong showing from Klique Car Club, who came to bring it with each club car showing full undercarriages! The Majestic's, Oldies, Stylistics, Rollerz Only, The Crowd, Techniques, and Phoenix Car Clubs were also on hand, showing off their best creations. The Plaza was packed with a hard line up from Groupe. Old School CC came to impress, and showcased their centerpiece on the Plaza, the 2011 Truck of the Year owned by Juan SiFuentes. The Majestics were presented the Most Members club award and Spirit CC garnered best Club Display.
The Mesa Amphitheatre Main stage featured hosts, The Manic Hispanic of Mega Radio, and Cedric Ceballos, of the Phoenix Suns Organization. The show came alive that day and into the night under the stars with Shock G of Digital Underground, Humpty Hump, and Digital Fuze, FROST, MC Magic, Mob Fam, Rocky Padilla's tribute to the Oldies, Spanglish Records DJ Kane, Ricky Rick, Maffio, Devone, Emaculant, and Phoenix's own Powerdrive! A pre-show line up also included artists brought in by Andy Herrera (Big Latin) including the world's youngest DJ, Baby Chino!
Though the show experienced a few move-in hiccups due to the overwhelming response and tight space, it was an overall success and Richard would like to sincerely thank the entire Motorsport Showcase and Society Car Club Staff who worked diligently throughout the weekend. A special thanks also goes out to The Ochoa Family, who worked alongside Richard for this special reunion Super Show.
Best of Show Winners
1st Best Car, 1st Pl. Best Over All Bonus,
Excellence Award - Albert DeAlba, Elite
2nd Best Car, 3rd. Pl. best Overall Bonus - Jr. Garcia, Imperials
3rd Best Car - Angel Ybarra, Stylistics
1st Traditional - Tomas Vasquez, Imperials
2nd Traditional - Saul Vasquez, Klique
3rd Traditional - Able Zavala, Imperials
1st Best Bomb - Mario DeAlba Sr. Elite
2nd Best Bomb - Ceasar Rodriquez, Oldies
3rd Best Bomb - Pearl Hernandez, Phoeniquera Classics
1st Best Truck, 2nd Pl. Best Overall Bonus - Juan SiFuentes, Brown Impressions
2nd best Truck - Mike Ochoa, The Crowd
3rd Best Truck - Ernie G.
1st Best Original - Salvador Mendez, Oldies
2nd Best Original - Rex Weeks, Oldies
3rd Best Original - Jr. Garcia, Imperials
Best Motorcycle - Daniel Sosa, Torch
1st Best Bike - Sebastian Paz, Nemasis
2nd Best Bike - Kevin Vierra, Hell Boy
3rd Best Bike - Tony Ortega, Rollerz Only
1st Best Trike - Tony Ortega, Rollerz Only
2nd Best Trike - Mark D.
3rd Best Trike - David Cirvantes, Goodtimes
Fort McDowell Casino Presidents Award - Juan SiFuentes, Brown Impressions
Editors Award - Brandon Gonzalez, Imperials
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To an extent, yes.
Seeing as how almost everyone I know comes to me with their problems, clearly I'm at least somewhat more intelligent than them. Bloody obvious solutions to their problems never occurred to them, or they are too lazy to do it and expect me to it for them.
At least one individual who seems to be a drug addict (not sure why he's allowed to continue to live in the apt building) who can't seem to take a hint that I hate him (even when I said so one day, though somewhat indirectly) even comes to my door bugging me for help. I need to quit being nice and answering the door, I guess.
Hell, one of my neighbors even said to me "You really have your shit together.". And I do.